Wireless Broadcom not sending/receiving?

Jerkstore · 12-16-2005, 08:15 PM

Hi everyone,

I'm new to these forums, and have been using slackware on and off for about 2 years now...I keep trying other distros, but always end up coming back to good old slackware in the end.

I've been working on setting up my wireless card on my new notebook (acer aspire 5000) with the Broadcom 4318 chipset...I've used ndiswrapper for the driver, and managed to get things connecting to my router and I even recieve an IP address, but it will not send or recieve data over the wifi...

here's some info:

ifconfig

Code:

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:A4:3B:7B:5C
          inet addr:192.168.2.13  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1667 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1510 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:889778 (868.9 Kb)  TX bytes:343226 (335.1 Kb)
          Interrupt:4 Memory:e2000000-e2002000

iwconfig

Code:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Streaming"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462GHz  Access Point: 00:90:96:CD:54:B5
          Bit Rate:54Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
          Encryption key:7D6B-5E65-569E-D11C-E21F-82EF-11   Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-56 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I have also written a script to connect to my home network just for easy access:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid Streaming mode Managed key 7d6b5e65569ed11ce21f82ef11 open commit
dhcpcd wlan0

Does anyone see anything wrong with what I'm doing at all?? I've scanned the boards for something I've missed, but I just don't see it...I've had my wireless card working on my last lappy with slackware and on my desktop with slackware, but I don't see what I've done differently.

The Jerkstore called and their all out of my wireless card...

Thanks for your help.

Lenard · 12-16-2005, 08:46 PM

Mine is one too, nice laptops.....

Depending on which kernel your running (32-bit or 64-bit) you need to run the Windows XP driver for your kernel with ndiswrapper. See;

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=384970

$ ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A4:36:13:09
inet addr:192.168.49.80 Bcast:192.168.49.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:a4ff:fe36:1309/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:14679 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14723 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:10901228 (10.3 MiB) TX bytes:2222611 (2.1 MiB)
Interrupt:217 Memory:e2000000-e2002000

$ uname -a
Linux Aspire5000 2.6.14.4dsdt #2 Fri Dec 16 13:08:32 EST 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Created a custom DSDT.aml file for battery monitor/management (the dsdt part) using a kernel patch to allow custom dsdt files in /boot/initrd. Just folow the advice available on the acpi.sourceforge.net site.

Jerkstore · 12-16-2005, 08:51 PM

lol

actually apparently the wifi does work....I think it was just having problems when I was swapping back and forth from lan to wlan

thanks for the help though man